How France won Euro 1984: Home advantage, the magic square and Platini's brilliance
As part of our series revisiting the winning team from every European Championship, Michael Cox looks at France in 1984
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As part of our series revisiting the winning team from every European Championship, Michael Cox looks at France in 1984
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Ex-international Dave Langan reflects on the bittersweet day when Michel Platini and co came to Dublin.
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Lev Yashin provided the defiance and Viktor Ponedelnik the extra-time winner in Paris as the Soviet Union beat Yugoslavia 2-1 in Paris to become the first team to lift the Henri Delaunay Cup. Appearing in the inaugural final courtesy of a dramatic 5-4 comeback victory over hosts France in the last four, Yugoslavia came to the fore once more in the showpiece. Milan Galić put them ahead in scrappy fashion and thereafter it was only Yashin's goalkeeping heroics that denied them. Slava Metreveli eventually levelled the scores before Ponedelnik wrote his name into Soviet folklore with the decisiv...